Senior Specialist – Youth Skills and Empowerment

Responsibility #1: Leadership and Oversight

35%

• Develop strategies to increase sustained youth participation and leadership in political, electoral, and civic processes.
• Coordinate youth-focused special initiatives developed in BIYA, such as youth advisory groups, dissemination of knowledge products, events for international awareness days, or other special programs.
• Guide the development and implementation of the BIYA youth political inclusion learning agenda.
• Promote the implementation of USAID youth-centered priorities among stakeholders including as BIYA partners, implementers, and the USG.

Responsibility #2: Skill Building and Technical Assistance

20%

• Build the technical capacity of BIYA staffs, sub-grantees and partners to design and implement youth political engagement and employability initiatives that integrate positive youth development, social behavior changes interventions, and intersectional and cross-sectoral approaches to youth political engagement.
• Provide technical assistance to regional, technical, and administrative teams on effective approaches to promoting youth Active civic engagement and mainstreaming youth considerations into BIYA project implementation and CARE’s internal and external policies and processes.
• Enhance the capacity of field staff and local partners to conduct youth-focused programming through training, information-sharing, and resource development.

Responsibility #3: Internal /External Communication and Inclusiveness

15%

• Work with the BIYA and CARE Management Team to develop communications products that highlight BIYA generated learnings that inform the donor and the community about effective programming practices and approaches related to youth political inclusion.
• Engage with key external stakeholders, including youth and inclusion points of contact at USAID, to keep up to date on emerging youth political inclusion trends, youth leadership and their inclusion in different civic platforms
• and to communicate key aspects of BIYA’s youth practice.
• Support the DCOP to promote a holistic, intersectional inclusion approach across BIYA project.

Responsibility #4: Reporting and Collaboration

20%

• Fulfill youth-related reporting and other requirements as requested by USAID, including quarterly reports, annual reports, workplans, and data calls.
• Lead collaboration with existing youth-focused staff and youth technical leads in BIYA by coordinating youth inclusion initiatives and activities.
• Foster cooperation and drive consensus by ensuring buy-in on consortium-level decisions pertaining to youth political participation.

Responsibility #5: Culture and Environment

10%

• Ensure strong collaboration with Women and Girls Empowerment Program and other USAID projects of CARE Bangladesh for alignment.
• Ensure that CARE’s PSHEA and Safety & security policies and procedures are applied to all program and staff operations.
• Promote a culture of reflective learning and adaptation across the broad spectrum of partnerships and project teams.

Responsibility # 6 Adhere to and support CARE Bangladesh’s Safety and Security policy and systems

As part of this role, the job holder will be expected to adhere to and support CARE Bangladesh’s Safety and Security policy and systems as part of their day to day duties, and comply, at all times, to safety & security protocols and directives, including reporting. Staff must maintain situational and self – awareness and be aware of the safety – security related consequences of their actions upon themselves, their team and the organization as a whole.

Responsibility # 7 Safeguarding

CARE is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct and expects staff to promote the welfare of children, young people and adults at all times. CARE expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our Code of Conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate this commitment are recruited to work with us.